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Should I ship a Post-apocalyptic Hex Grid game?
Hex Grid + Post-apocalyptic
Only 7 developers shipped a Post-apocalyptic Hex Grid game in the last 2 years, too few for firm odds: the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.; the top game by est. revenue, The Dead Await, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced, ×3.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $19k, ×30 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $600; 1 in 20 cleared $42k, ×67 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 18 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $19k (exactly $18,591) |
| Top 25% | $28k (exactly $27,844) |
| Top 5% | $42k (exactly $42,088) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
momentum: how a niche's revenue percentiles and developer count moved between two equal, adjacent periods, divided by the market's own move. See method., 12 months: revenue too few recent games to read momentum, supply 150% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hex Grid
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Post-apocalyptic
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Hex Grid
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $12.99.
The top 10 games average 79% positive over 14,299 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 18 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hex Grid with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Turn-BasedPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + ExplorationPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
- + Strategy RPGPoor odds
- + 4XPoor odds
- + Card BattlerPoor odds
- + RoguelitePoor odds
- + RoguelikePoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
Comparable games
Crying Suns 2019 · $2.4M 
NEO Scavenger 2014 · $2.0M 
Sheltered 2 2021 · $1.2M 
Urtuk: The Desolation 2021 · $1.0M 
Before We Leave 2021 · $766k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Crying Suns | older | $24.99 | 3,149 85% | 94k | $2.4M (exactly $2,360,805) | Alt Shift |
| | NEO Scavenger | older | $14.99 | 4,437 89% | 133k | $2.0M (exactly $1,995,319) | Blue Bottle Games |
| | Sheltered 2 | older | $19.99 | 2,015 45% | 60k | $1.2M (exactly $1,208,396) | Unicube |
| | Urtuk: The Desolation | older | $13.99 | 2,408 87% | 72k | $1.0M (exactly $1,010,638) | David Kaleta |
| | Before We Leave | older | $19.99 | 1,278 78% | 38k | $766k (exactly $766,417) | Balancing Monkey Games |
 | Ogre | older | $24.99 | 223 66% | 6.7k | $167k (exactly $167,183) | Auroch Digital |
 | Lost Scavenger | · EA older | $14.99 | 220 51% | 6.6k | $99k (exactly $98,934) | Rockbee |
 | Z Dawn | older | $9.99 | 259 72% | 7.8k | $78k (exactly $77,622) | GoldenGod Games |
 | Dawnmaker | older | $14.99 | 156 91% | 4.7k | $70k (exactly $70,153) | Arpentor Studio |
 | Winds Of Trade | older | $11.99 | 154 61% | 4.6k | $55k (exactly $55,394) | Rhombico Games |
 | The Dead Await | $12.99 | 108 67% | 3.2k | $42k (exactly $42,088) | Shotx | |
 | Gunbot Diplomacy | $4.99 | 186 86% | 5.6k | $28k (exactly $27,844) | Sleepy Sentry | |
 | Deep Fringe | · EA | $19.99 | 45 88% | 1.4k | $27k (exactly $26,986) | Bosoneon Studio |
 | Xenowars | $19.99 | 31 83% | 930 | $19k (exactly $18,591) | Strategeion Studios | |
 | Fur and Void | $9.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | DFS | |
 | Rabbit Comes Home | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | ZIPSTED | |
 | 3096 | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hector Hedgecoat Industries |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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